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Four-Way ARM Linux Distribution Comparison

11-07-2012, 08:30 PM

Phoronix: Four-Way ARM Linux Distribution Comparison

The latest ARM Linux benchmarks to share at Phoronix is a comparison of Ubuntu 12.10, Linaro 12.10, Fedora 17, and Arch Linux when running from the dual-core Cortex-A9 OMAP4460-based PandaBoard ES development board.

I'm a little surprised at these results. I didn't expect arch to fall that far behind, although i have got the impression their ARM support is a little lacking. One of the things i found so weird about arch is its relatively poor support for anything that isn't x86, because you'd think a distro that sometimes compiles things on-the-fly would be easily cross platform.

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I'm a little surprised at these results. I didn't expect arch to fall that far behind, although i have got the impression their ARM support is a little lacking. One of the things i found so weird about arch is its relatively poor support for anything that isn't x86, because you'd think a distro that sometimes compiles things on-the-fly would be easily cross platform.

I know it would be quite a work but nobody is actually doing this benchmarks, and surely it would be a great benchmark to read if you are thinking in making a server or a small suoercomputer.

I recently watched a video where a university makes its own supercomputer and they waited to the new i7 to make it instead of using cheaper ARM boards, perhaps with future ARM64 boards the choose would have been different, but as a tech reader I cannot find now benchmarks between multi intel i7 / AMDs and ARM for servers and supercomputers with actual costs and energy budget for a similar power.

Thanks in advance for your future work in this field if you accept the suggestion.